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PATENTED MAY 21, 1907.

J. S. TUTTLE. BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED APE.27,1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT or F1013.

JOSIAH S. TUTTLE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO STANDARD SCALEAND FOUNDRY 00., OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

BALlNG-PRESS.

'lratentecl i'vlay 21, 1907.

Application filed Apri1 27, N306. Serial No. 313,941.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSIAH S. TUTTLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in thecounty of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to balingpresses and more especially to thatclass in which the horse or team of horses travel back and forth in asemi-circle around the front end of the machine, and my object is toproduce a machine of this character which operates efficiently andreliably.

A further object is to produce a machine of this character of knock-downconstruction in order that it may be shipped with greater convenienceand with less chance of injury to any of the parts.

A still further object is to produce a machine of this character ofsimple, strong, durable and inexpensive construction.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel andpeculiar features of construction and combinations of parts ashereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fullyunderstood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the press. Fig. 2 is-a plan viewof the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same. tion taken 011 the lineIVIV of Fig. 2 with the plunger-beam in its depressed or advancedposition. Fig. 5 is a cross section taken on the line V of Fig. 1. Fig.6 is a top plan view of a modified construction of the power end of thepress. Fig. 7 is a side view of the same.

- In the said drawings 1 indicates a pair of runners connected pivotallynear their front ends by a cross bar 2, the connection being forward ofthe center of said runners in order that the latter may be swung fartherapart at their rear ends and thus give the machine a wider and thereforemore stable bearing or support when the baling operation is to beperformed.

Bolted at their front ends upon the cross bar 2, is a pair of angle bars3, forming the reach connection between the power end and the baling endof the machine, the baling case 4, of the usual or any preferred typebeing mounted rigidly upon said bars near their Fig. 4 is a secrearends, and near the rear end of the baling case bars 3 rest upon a crossbar 5, connecting the rear runners 6, it being understood-:

desired, though the latter are preferred as they are inexpensive andmake the machine as a whole much lighter than the ordinary baling pressof equal capacity.

7 is a cross bar resting upon the rear portion of the baling case, andconnecting said bar with bar 5 at opposite sides of the case are rods 8,headed at their lower ends by preference and engaged at their upper endsby clamping nuts 9. opening 10, in the top of the case, and risingdivergently therefrom are the hopper walls 11 and 12, for the purpose ofassisting the operator who charges the press with the baling material,to quickly and easily accomplish such object, the hopper wall at theopposite side of the press from said operator being preferably ofgreater height than the other.

13 designates a pair of bifurcated brackets, resting upon the front endsof angle irons or reach bars 3, and pivoted to the latter as at 14.Secured rigidly in the bifurcated brackets 13, are a pair of standards15 having their rear edges formed or equipped with trackways 16, whichslope upward and forward for the greater part of the height of thestandards, and at the upper ends of the latter curve forward as at 17,and register with the trackways 19, of brackets 18, secured rigidly tothe front side and upper ends of said standards, the trackways 19 havingupwardly projecting terminals 20 for a purpose which hereinafterappears, the said brackets being spaced apart by their inwardlyprojecting and meeting bosses 21, and secured rigidly in such relationby a bolt 22, en aged at its ends by nuts 23. It will be understood inthis connection that the parts from 13 to 21 inclusive, may be ofintegral construction, but that described is preferred, because in suchcase the standards 15 are of wood, which gives the required strengthwith a minimum weight.

24 designates a bolt extending through brackets 13 and standards 15, andjournaled on said bolt between said brackets is a grooved wheel 25,occupying the same vertical plane as the similar wheel 26 journaledFlanking the usual feedear -'5?? in the central bifurcation of thetrebly bifurcated'bracket 27, the latter having a stem portion 28fitting and bolted in the front end of the plunger beam 29, the rear endof said plunger beam being fitted and bolted upon the stem portion of abracket 30, pivoted as at 31, for movement in a vertical plane to theplunger 32, said plunger having rollers 33, to travel on the bottom ofthe baling case and reduce the friction to the minimum.

An apron for preventing the baling material from dropping into thebaling case forward of the plunger when the latter is in operation,comprises the plate 34 secured to the upper edge of the plunger, and theplate 35, hinged as at 36, to the front edge of plate 34, the hingerelation being substantially a rule-joint hinge, so that plate 35cannot' drop below a horizontal plane when the front end of the plungerbeam moves downward.

Flanking the grooved roller 26 and occupying the outer bifurcations ofbracket 27, are a pair of track rollers 37 which with the grooved rollerare journaled on the bolt 38, carried by and bridging the bifurcationsof bracket 27, the track rollers 37 being disposed to travel upon thetrackways of standards 15.

To return the plunger to the front end of the baling case after eachstroke, I employ a pair of retractile springs 39, secured at their lowerends as at 40, to the reach bars, and at their front or upper ends tothe cables 41, said cables being secured at their opposite ends to abolt 42, extending through the plunger beam. Between their ends thecables extend around the guide pulleys 43, supported outward of theupper ends of standards 15.

44 is a bolt connecting the reach bars 3, and forming an anchor for thelower and rear end of a cable 45, which extends up through the centralbifurcation of bracket 27, around the grooved roller 26 thereof, andthence down under and forward from the grooved roller 25, the front endof said ca-ble being equipped with a swingle or double tree, not shown,to which a draft animal is hitched for the purpose of operating themachine. To brace the upper end of the standards While the machine isbeing operated, a pair of tie-bars 46, are bolted at their rear ends tothe baling case and at their front ends are mounted on bolt 22 andsecured thereto by the nuts 23.

Before the baling operation begins the-rear end of runners 1 arepreferably swung pivotally outward so that the power-end of the presshas no tendency to tilt sidewise, said runners and the rear runners alsobeing staked to the ground in the customary manner to guard againstmovement in any direction. The draft animal is then hitched to themachine, and the feeder charges the press A with a suitable quantity ofbaling material. The horse is then driven forward and through the cableconnection 45, anchored to the reach and running around pulleys 25 and26, pulls the front end of the plunger beam downward and rearward, thetrack rollers 37 running upon the trackways to reduce friction as muchas possible. That portion of the plunger stroke which occurs while thetrack rollers 37 are traveling from the upper ends of the trackways tothe lower ends of the curved portions 17 thereof,approximately half ofthe stroke of the plunger beamis accomplished quickly and easily becausethe baling materialis bunched loosely and therefore offers but littleresistance to the plunger. As the track rollers start down the inclinedportions 16 of the trackways, the leverage of the draft animal on theplunger is increased at a sacrifice of plunger speed, in order that theincreasing resistance offered by the baling material as it becomes moreclosely packed, may be overcome. The track rollers continue to movedmvnward until the plunger movement ceases by reason of the plunger beamattaining a horizontal position, when the horses are backed toward themachine to be ready to effect the next compression stroke of theplunger. horses back, the springs 39 which were stretched or tensionedas shown in Fig. 4, through the movement of the cable 41 and plungerbeam, retract for the purpose of withdrawing the plunger and raising thefront end of the beam to its original position, and in this connectionit should be stated that the principal reason for having the trackwayportions 16, inclined upward and forward slightly, is-to insure that theretract ive action of said springs and the forward pressure of thecompressed baling material on the plunger shall be followed instantly byupward movement of the front end of the plunger beam, and as the latterattains its highest position of adjustment the upwardly curved portions20 of the traokways form abutments to arrest the withdrawing plungerbeam at the proper point. All future operations are repetitions of thosedescribed and when it is desired to move the machine from one point toanother in the field, the stakes are removedand the draft animal ishitched to the machine in any suitable manner, it being obvious that thefront runners, because pivoted near their front ends (the rear ones areperfectly rigid with the cross bar) swing naturally into line with themachine so as to offer the least possible resistance to progress.

When it is desired to ship the machine from one place to another, thenuts 23, are removed to permit the tie-bars 46 to swing down to theposition shown in dotted lines Fig. 1, the nuts being then replaced uponbolt 22, to prevent loss. The front end of As the IIS i i z i i theplunger beam is then raised to permit the standards to be folded down onpivot-bolt 14 to the position shown in dotted lines Fig. 1, and then theplunger beam is shoved rear wardly and lpwered to the position shown indotted lines said figure. In this condition the machine may obviously beshipped in the narrowest compass possible, without more completelydismantling the machine, and consequently can be shipped with lessdanger of injury and at less cost than it would be possible to ship itwith the parts in operative relation.

For the purpose of operating the machine by means of a sweep andavoiding the necessity of backing the horse or horses as is necessarywith the machine as embodied in Sheets 1 and 2, the followingconstruction is employed, reference being had to Sheet 3. 3" indicatesfront extensions of parts 3, connected by cross-bar 47, equippedcentrally with a pivot-bolt 48 upon which is mounted the sweep 49,carrying a swinging clevis 50 at its front end, as a support for theswingle or double tree 51, the clevis being so proportioned and disposedthat the swingle or double tree may be swung around to either side ofthe sweep as will be understood by reference to Fig. 6. The sweep isalso provided with a pivoted hook 52, to which is attached the front endof cable 45 as a substitute for cable 45 of Sheets 1 and 2, the rear endof said cable 45, being attached to the cross-bolt 38 of theplunger-beam sheave 26 being omitted. Said cable 45 engages the underside of sheave 25, and forward of the same passes between the guidesheaves 5354, journaled to rotate in ahorizontal plane on bolts 55,carried by cross bar 56, connecting the blocks 57, secured rigidly inany suitable manner to extensions 3. As a more economical butequallyeffective-method of re'elevating the front end of the pitman thanthat shown in Sheets 1 and 2, the standards may be equipped with upwardprolongations 15 and the opposite ends of springs 39 be attached to suchextensions or prolonga- I tions and the pitman, as shown in Figs. 6 and7, and to brace the extensions 3*, while the machine is being operated,a block or equivalent 3", may be employed, or said extensions may beotherwise braced.

\Vith the type of construction shown by Sheet 3, the horse or team ofhorses. travel something more than a semi-circle in making a compressionstroke, the first half of such movement effecting the compression andthe second half occurring during the recoil, and in this connection itwill be seen that the horse or team keeps the cable 45 taut and therefore prevents the injurious shock or jar incident to the recoil movementin most hay presses. When the recoilsmovement is completed, the horse orteam is guided around to I dispose the swingle or double tree at the op-1 posite side of the sweep (see arrow Fig. 6) and the second compressionstroke begins without stopping or backing the horse or team, the cable-15 acting on sheave 53 during the first stroke and recoil of theplunger and on sheave 54 in the second stroke and recoil, the end ofeach stroke terminating when the sweep is longitudinally alined with themachine, as will be readily understood. When not baling hay the horse orteam still hitched to the swingle or double tree, may be caused to drawthe machine to any part of the field, the sweep thus performing thefunction of a tongue.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced abaling press embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirablein the statement of the object of the invention and which obviously maybe modified in its form, proportion, detail construction and arrangementof the parts without departing from the principle of constructioninvolved.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters- Patent, is:

1. A baling press, comprising a baling case, a reach extending forwardlytherefrom, a standard mounted on the front ortion of the reach andprovided with a trac (way, a plunger, a plunger beam pivoted to theplunger and hearing at its opposite end upon the trackway, means to drawsaid plunger beam down upon the trackway to effect the com pressionstroke of the plunger, and means for relevating the front end of theplunger to effect its withdrawal stroke.

2. A baling press, comprising a baling case, a reach extending forwardlytherefrom, a standard mounted on the front ortion of the reach andprovided with a trac (way, a plunger, a plunger beam pivoted to theplunger and bearing at its opposite end upon the trackway, means to drawsaid plunger beam down upon the trackway to effect the compressionstroke of the plunger, and means for yield ingly relevating the frontend of the plunger beam to effect the withdrawal stroke of the plunger.

3. A baling press, comprising a baling case, a reach extending forwardlytherefrom, a standard mounted on the front ortion of the reach andprovided with a trac 'way, a plunger, a plunger beam pivoted to theplunger and bearing at its opposite end upon the trackway, means to drawsaid plunger beam down upon the trackway to effect the compressionstroke of the lunger, a retractile spring suitably anchored: a cableattached at its opposite ends to the plunger beam and spring, and afixed guide for the cable disposed forward of and above said spring andthe point of attachment between the cable and the plunger.

4. A baling press, comprising a baling case,

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a reach extending forwardly therefrom, a pair of standards mounted onthe front portion of the reach at opposite sides of the longitudinalcenter of the machine and each provided with a trackway, a plunger, alunger beam pivoted to the plunger, a brac et secured to the oppositeend of the lunger beam, a bolt 6X tending through said bracket, trackrollers journaled on said bolt and engaging said trackways, a guidepulley j ournaled centrally of the bolt, a guide ulley j ournaledbetween the lower portions 0 the standards, and a cable engaging saidguide pulleys and attached at its rear end to a fixed point on themachine.

5. I11 a baling press, a baling case, a reach projecting forwardlytherefro1n,'a standard pivotally rising from the reach and having atrackway, and one or more braces connecting the baling case with saidstandard.

6. In a baling press, a baling case, a reach projecting forwardlytherefrom, runners supporting the rear end of the ress, a cross barcarried by the front end 0 runners pivoted to and underlying said crossbar, a standard pivotally rising from the reach and having a trackway,and one or more braces connecting the baling case with said standard.

7. In a baling press, a baling case, a reach projecting forwardlytherefrom, a standard I pivotally mounted at its lower end on the thereach, front I reach and having a trackway, and means to hold thestandard rigid with relation to the reach.

8. A baling press, comprising a baling case, a reach extending forwardlytherefrom, a standard mounted on the front ortion of the reach andprovided with a trac 'way, a plunger, a plunger beam pivoted to theplunger and bearing at its opposite end upon the traokway, a cablesecured at its rear end to a fixed point of the machine and having asliding connection with the front end of the plunger beam and with thefront end of the ress contiguous to the reach and adapted for lrawingthe front end of the plunger beam down u )on the trackway of thestandard, and means for relevating the front portion of the plungerbeam.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOSIAH s. TUTTLE Witnesses EVERT A. KEMP, F. W. DE LONG.

